#harsh

• Aggravating — Aggravating, worsening, or increasing the severity of a criminal act, a legal situation, or a patient's health status. In criminal law, the term describes specific circumstances accompanying the commission of an offense (such as premeditation or cruelty) that legally dictate a significantly harsher penalty.
• Fierce — Extremely harsh, severe, violent, fierce, or merciless; occurring with a particularly high intensity, causing fear, destruction, or deep suffering. As an adverb, it expresses the execution of an action in a vehement, fierce, or agonizing manner.
• Fierce — Full of energy, harshness, sharpness, or fire; hot-tempered, unrestrained, severe, or unyielding in actions or decisions. Frequently used figuratively to describe violent conflicts, biting frosts, piercing winds, or passionate natures acting with overwhelming force and unwavering doughtiness.
• Mercenary-like — Belonging to or characteristic of the arnăuți (Albanian mercenaries); representative of the attire, customs, weaponry, or fierce spirit of these warriors. In an extended or figurative sense, it describes a harsh, severe, relentless, military-like attitude or a rigid and authoritarian behavior.
• In the manner of mercenaries — In the manner of the arnăuți (Albanian mercenaries); with harshness, brutality, fierce determination, or reckless courage. The adverb describes the way a person acts, speaks, dresses, or behaves, borrowing the specific traits of the old arnăuți warriors.
• Roughness — A sensation or property of a surface, material, or food of being rough, rugged, coarse, or lacking smoothness; a tactile characteristic of an object that scratches or opposes resistance to touch; in a gustatory sense, it describes an astringent, sour-bitter, or harsh sensation on the tongue (specific to young wines or unripe fruits); in a figurative sense, it refers to a harshness of character, severity, or hardness in behavior or expression.
• To roughen — To become or make rough, rugged, or lacking smoothness to the touch; to acquire an astringent or sour-bitter note (of taste); in a figurative sense, it means to become more severe, harsh, demanding, or rigid in behavior, rules, attitudes, or measures; to intensify the severity of a situation or a punishment.
• Harshness — The quality or state of being rough or harsh; a lack of smoothness, fineness, or softness of a tactile surface; an astringent or unpleasant sensation to the taste; in a figurative sense, it represents an extreme severity of character, rigidity in applying rules, hardness of language, intolerance, or a violent intensity of meteorological phenomena.
• Roughening — The act of roughening or harshening and its result; a process through which a surface loses its smoothness and becomes rugged, or through which a taste acquires an astringent note. In a figurative sense, it represents an increase in severity, requirements, or intensity of rules, punishments, or weather conditions; a functional synonym for intensification or tightening.
• Roughened — Having been made or having become rough, rugged, dry, or lacking smoothness; in a figurative sense, it describes a situation, a regulation, a tone of voice, or a punishment that has become much more severe, rigid, restrictive, or harder to tolerate.
• Rough — Presenting irregularities, prominences, or roughness to the touch, lacking smoothness and softness; producing an astringent, sour, bitter, or sharp sensation to the taste, or a strident, hoarse, and unpleasant sound to the hearing. In a figurative and moral sense, it describes a severe, rigid, unforgiving person, extremely harsh rules or punishments, or violent and hard-to-endure climatic phenomena (such as a harsh winter). In folk ichthyology, it can also denote the asprete fish.